Eating right with diabetes: LEAD course now enrolling

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Sep 21, 2017 at 12:01 AM

Want to learn how to eat right with diabetes? The LEAD course — which means live well, eat well and be active with diabetes — takes the next step in helping an individual with diabetes learn how to manage diabetes with food through portions sizes to include the plate method and/or carbohydrate counting.

Also stressed in the course are ways to increase physical activity and working with your team of medical professionals to include a doctor, nurse, dietitian, certified diabetes educator, pharmacist etc. Other topics include: reading food labels, visual cues, modifying recipes, sugar, fat, sodium and fiber and general meal planning tips.

The best part and a surprise to all participants is that at the end of the lecture each week participants are offered a taste of several types of food that fit in to a diabetic diet. WOW, and they taste great too!

The four-week course will be held on Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24. The cost of the entire course is $30 which includes all the written materials and food tasting/meal. Class will be held at the Adams Boulevard Church of Christ, 3700 SE Adams Blvd., Bartlesville, in the dining room located down the hill to the left side of the building. (Do not call the church to register).

To register, send check made out to the OSU Extension Service, PO Box 10, Dewey, OK 74029 by 4 p.m. Sept. 29. Include name, mailing address, e-mail address, and home/cell phone number. No physicians order is required for this class. Registration form can be found on the website at www.oces.okstate.edu/washington. For questions, contact Gale Mills by phone at 918-534-2216 or by e-mail at gale.mills@okstate.edu.

Don’t delay as the summer course filled up fast!

Take charge of your health by eating right with diabetes. Changes made will allow a person to feel better, and have more energy to enjoy their day. Let the OSU Extension Service help you eat right with diabetes!

For questions regarding this article or to schedule a class in any area of family and consumer sciences, contact Gale Mills at 918-534-2216 or email gale.mills@okstate.edu.

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